Google is expanding its Google AI tools and programs for students, educators and academic researchers, unveiling free training, product upgrades and data-transfer options in a company blog post.
The announcement frames the updates as responses to growing use of Google AI in classrooms and campuses, with the company saying millions of students and educators are already using its tools to personalise learning.
Google is offering free AI literacy training to "all 6 million K12 and higher ed educators" in the U.S., with content launching in May and new modules released monthly, the blog post says. The training will appear inside the Google AI for Education Accelerator, which bundles career certificates, AI training and access to Google's advanced tools. For research, Google has opened an inaugural affiliate cohort with Purdue University, the University of Alabama and UC Riverside, providing discounted AI-optimised hardware, early access to frontier models and collaboration with Google experts via the Google Public Sector Program for Accelerated Research (GPAR).
On products, educators and students with Education Plus or the Teaching and Learning add-on get doubled NotebookLM limits, letting them create more notebooks, sources and learning materials. Gemini gains more test-prep content, including on-demand NEET mock exams — students can prompt Gemini, "I want to take a NEET mock exam", the company said in a blog post. Gemini is now an official AI provider for Moodle and will support Gemini LTI starting in May, letting instructors assign Gems and notebooks directly inside the LMS. Separately, Google will let users transfer Google Photos from school accounts to personal Gmail via Google Takeout Transfer starting in May, with new admin photo-management tools arriving later this year.
The recap
- Google expands AI tools and training for education and research.
- Free AI training for all 6 million K12 and higher-ed educators.
- NotebookLM and Gemini integrations roll out starting in May.